Scientific Study of Factors Affecting Students' Attitudes Towards Political Participation in the Islamic Revolution (Case Study: Students under the support of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Shiraz)

Khodami, Alireza; OTOOFAT, SAEED; Shojaeifar, Ali

Scientific Study of Factors Affecting Students' Attitudes Towards Political Participation in the Islamic Revolution (Case Study: Students under the support of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Shiraz)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Alireza Khodami ¹

SAEED OTOOFAT ²

Ali Shojaeifar ¹

¹ Faculty of Payam Noor University, Tehran Center

² دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی واحد جهرم

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to study the factors influencing the attitude of students under the support of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee of Shiraz to political participation. The research method is survey. The statistical population includes all the students under the support of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Shiraz, 302 of whom were selected as a sample using a systematic sampling method. The instrument is a questionnaire that was presented to the experts who are professors of the sociology department to determine its validity using the face validity method, whose opinion was based on confirming the validity of the questionnaires. To determine reliability, the internal consistency method using Cronbach's alpha method has been used. The descriptive results of the research show that the average attitude of students towards political participation is at a low level. The analytical findings indicate that there is a positive, strong and meaningful relationship between students' political participation and social political awareness of students, parents' political awareness and party affiliation. Among the demographic variables, the relationship between gender, marital status and field of study with political participation is significant, positive and strong. The explanation of political participation in general, in terms of the total of independent variables, reveals that the variables of social political awareness of students (0.459), party affiliation (0.283), marital status (0.137), age (0.127), Parents' political awareness (0.126) are respectively the strongest predictors of political participation and can explain 59% of the changes in the variance of students' political participation.

Keywords

Social Political Awareness of Students

Political Participation

Party Affiliation

Political Awareness of Parents

Shiraz

Subjects

Topics related to the Islamic Revolution

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